imbricate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: imbricate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for imbricate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
imbricate adj used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles Synonym(s): imbricate, imbricated v place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles" overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Imbricate \Im"bricate\, Imbricated \Im"brica`ted\, a. [L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.] 1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile. 2. Lying over each other in regular order, so as to [bd]break joints,[b8] like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in [91]stivation. 3. In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Imbricate \Im"bri*cate\, v. t. To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.